"...Hemorrhoids, seriously?"
Seeing Fang Mo idly tossing the dark-red fleshy lump in his hand, A Xue shook her head helplessly.
Others might genuinely have never seen this thing before, but she was already used to it. They had even grown several clumps of it in the cellar of their villa before. Her master had curiously sliced it up and dipped it in soy sauce, only to spit it out the moment it entered his mouth. After that, he cursed for three straight days that Nether Wart was only fit for feeding pigs.
That was right.
What Fang Mo had taken out was Nether Wart.
It was a material that came with the original game, found deep within fortress ruins in the Nether... or rather, the underworld.
From a game perspective, Nether Wart looked somewhat like a dark-red fungus. It could only grow slowly on soul sand, and it was also one of the main ingredients for brewing potions in the original game.
But once materialized in reality...
It looked exactly like the thing in Fang Mo's hand.
It was a fleshy lump slightly smaller than a palm, dark red all over like a slice of biological tissue, with irregular protrusions covering its surface.
If he had to describe it, it looked a little like a miniature cauliflower. It had many suspicious little fleshy nubs that made one uneasy just from looking at them, while countless vein-like fungal threads clung together beneath it. Honestly, it looked truly bizarre. Even knowing it was merely a fungus, it was still incredibly difficult to work up the courage to eat it.
And its taste was equally indescribable.
Fang Mo had tried it before. It was slippery yet tough in the mouth, impossible to chew through, and carried a strange stench.
It was a bit